During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Orientation is a fundamental mental function that processes the relations between the
behaving self to space (places), time (events), and person (people). Behavioral and …

If there is one topic on which we all are experts, it is ourselves. Psychologists depend on this
expertise, as asking people questions about themselves is an important means by which …

Neurobiological models of self-control predominantly focus on the role of prefrontal brain
mechanisms involved in emotion regulation and impulse control. We provide evidence for …

“Mental time travel” refers to conscious experience of remembering the personal past and
imagining the personal future. Little is known about its neural correlates. Here, using …

Memory is a general attribute of living species, whose diversification reflects both
evolutionary and developmental processes. Episodic-autobiographical memory (EAM) is …

Meditation practice can lead to what have been referred to as “altered states of
consciousness.” One of the phenomenological characteristics of these states is a joint …

Research on future‐oriented mental time travel (FMTT) is highly active yet somewhat unruly.
I believe this is due, in large part, to the complexity of both the tasks used to test FMTT and …

The capacity to imagine situations that have already happened or fictitious events that may
take place in the future is known as mental time travel (MTT). Studies have shown that MTT …